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Preliminary Examination in History and Economics

[For students starting before MT 2017: .

A

The Preliminary Examination in History and Economics shall be under the joint supervision of the Divisional Board of Social Studies, and the Board of the Faculty of History and shall consist of such subjects as they shall jointly by regulation prescribe.

B

Every candidate shall offer four papers, as follows:

1. Introductory Economics, as specified for the Preliminary Examination in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics.

2. General History: any one of the periods specified for the Preliminary Examination in History.

3. Optional Subject: any one of an approved list of subjects, as specified for the Preliminary Examination in History.

or

Industrialization in Britain and France 1750-1870, which is available only for candidates for this examination.

4.Either (a) Approaches to History or (b) Historiography: Tacitus to Weber or (c) Foreign Texts or (d) Quantification in History, as specified for the Preliminary Examination in History.

The individual specifications and prescribed texts for papers 3 and 4 above will be published in the Handbook for the Preliminary Examination in History by Monday of noughth week of Michaelmas Term each year for the academic year ahead. Depending on the availability of teaching resources, with the exception of Optional Subject 1, not all the Optional Subjects listed in the Handbook will be available to candidates in any given year. Candidates may obtain details of the choice of options for that year by consulting the Definitive List of Optional Subjects posted at the beginning of the first week of Michaelmas Full Term in the History Faculty and circulated to tutors.

Schedule

Note. The letter c against a text indicates that it is available as a photocopy from the History Faculty Library. The letter t against a text indicates that it is to be read in specially prepared translation.

Industrialization in Britain and France 1750-1870

This is a paper in comparative economic history and is concerned with the main relationships involved in the industrialization of these two countries.

The texts have been selected to exemplify British commentaries on economic developments in France and French perceptions of Britain's economic progress from 1750 to 1870.

A. Texts by British Authors:

A. Young, Travels in France During the Years 1787, 1788 and 1789, ed. Constantia Maxwell (Cambridge, 1950), pp. 279-300, 312-13. (Available in the History Faculty Library.)

Candidates who fail one or more of papers 1, 2, 3, or 4 above may resit that subject or subjects at a subsequent examination.]

[For students starting from MT 2017: .

A

1. The Preliminary Examination in History and Economics shall be under the joint supervision of the Divisional Board of Social Sciences, and the Board of the Faculty of History and shall consist of such subjects as they shall jointly by regulation prescribe.

2. The lists of specific papers available will be published by the two Boards at the dates defined in the regulations for the Preliminary Examinations in History and in Politics, Philosophy and Economics.

B

Every candidate shall offer four papers, as follows:

1. Introductory Economics, as specified for the Preliminary Examination in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics.

2. European & World History: any one of the periods specified for the Preliminary Examination in History.

3. Optional Subject: any one of an approved list of subjects, as specified for the Preliminary Examination in History.

or Industrialization in Britain and France 1750-1870, which is available only for candidates for this examination.

4. One of the following subjects, as specified for the Preliminary Examination in History:

(a) Approaches to History;

(b) Historiography: Tacitus to Weber;

(c) Foreign Texts;

(d) Quantification in History.

Candidates who fail one or more of papers 1, 2, 3, or 4 above may resit that paper or papers at a subsequent examination.]